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WINDI CUCU SOFLANEN 2201412043 ICT 201


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TASK 3, SUMMARY ABOUT CALL

CALL (Computer Assist Language Learning)

CALL (Computer-Assisted Learning Language) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which computer technology is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. CALL is not a method. It is a tool that helps teachers to facilitate language learning process. CALL can be used to reinforce what has been learned in the classrooms. It can also be used as remedial to help learners with limited language proficiency.

The design of CALL is used to help the teacher completing the learning, because CALL have 2 important features, they are bidirectional (interactive) learning and individualized learning. So CALL is not be used to replace the face to face language instruction.

Maybe using the internet to teach language in schools in Indonesia is still not realistic for now because there is a lack of funding from government and education institution itself, but maybe it can be realized in the future. Actually in the learning with using CALL can give some advantages for students and teachers, they are  1) CALL is good for motivating students to study English, 2) Students can get different types of input using a computer, 3) Learning can be individualized using computers, 4) CALL can overcome barriers of time and place, 5) Teachers can get materials from commercial companies. But there is also a disadvantage where the teachers have obstacles in doing implementation in their class especially in Indonesia, like there is no enough instrument in teaching, a school has to have a computer for a student and of course there must be internet there.

However, most of the problems that appear in the literature on CALL have more to do with teacher expectations and apprehensions about what computers can do for the language learner and teacher. Teachers and administrators tend to either think computers are worthless or even harmful, or can do far more than they are really capable of. Reluctance on part of teachers can come from lack of understanding and even fear of technology. Often CALL is not implemented unless it is required even if training is offered to teachers

For adoption of learning technologies in schools, of course Teachers should be computer literate and trained continuously and they have to get more experiences in using CALL.

Source:

http://jakaparama.blogspot.com/2009/12/computer-assisted-language-learning.html

TASK 2 - ICT in Language Learning

SUMMARY 

A report from Japan showed that ICT can improve students’ motivation in learning, especially in terms of “Knowledge-Comprehension”, “Practical skill” and “Presentation skill”. Although ICT can give some advantages for students in education, ICT also can give some disadvantages in education . The advantages of ICT in education are: by seeing the pictures, students can remember the material longer, for the teacher, they could measure how far students understand the material, and they could make learning more interesting for students and could improve students attendance and concentration. On the other side, the disadvantages of ICT in education are : many teachers that haven’t known what ICT is, and buying of ICT equipment is too expensive.

Nowadays, technology will develop rapidly and newer, even it is cheaper and stronger will appear to make the whole of the world more sophisticated. Many efforts that people do to make the education more sophisticated, like TV and Radio or mobile phone are used in some school to make learning more interesting and sophisticated. New internet technology will exist to provide connectivity to remoter areas, and software that students could get freely from internet to support education.

In some school, the teachers have shown to their students some application or software that they can use in online teaching. It can make their students to be more creative and make learning more interesting. Some software that the teachers can use are wallwisher and prezi. Wallwisher looks like facebook, it can be used for sharing some URL, link web, pictures, audio, video or making note. Teachers can ask their students to post their assignment on wallwisher, and the teachers can assess their assignment or give feedback. Prezi, it can be used for presentation. It looks like power point, but Prezi shows the presentation more interesting. In power point, the form of presentation is some slides, but in Prezi, the form of presentation is like a map. The teachers can zoom out or zoom in.

Planning Commission said that ICT tools must be used for significantly improving the educational services and for streamlining the admission process. ICT must be used to improve learning service. ICT can be used to increase experience in learning and can improve the quality of research and collaboration by providing knowledge and information widely because education is a key for growth and prosperity of a country.

Because of its interactive and dynamic nature, ICT has the potential to meet the needs of individual students by providing opportunities to direct their learning and to pursue information, or complete tasks, in ways which meet their own interests and needs. (Computer based technologies in English KLA, 1997, p6). If the teacher use ICT in learning, it could make students more creative because they can use multimedia to make the material in learning more interesting. Using ICT in English could improve students skill in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students could get all of the material that they need from internet in some form like picture, animation, audio or video.

TASK 1 ICT in Language Learning

SUMMARY

                Nowdays, internet is like a primary thing. Everything that we will do, sometimes wi need internet. In education, a teacher will ask his/her students to use internet for the learning process. They can use internet to browse the material they can use to add their knowledge. Thay can use ebook to get many books from internet easily. For other people, they can use internet like for selling or buying something, usually we call it online-shop. They also can use internet for online baking, online office suites, shopping cart software, teleconferencing, electronic ticket, etc. Using internet is very easy now, we can use our mobile or smartphone for accessing internet every time and every where we want. It’s an evidence that how useful internet is.

                If we use internet, we usually find a word or some words ( usually the color of those are blue) that if we click it, it will refer to another web page that have the similar context with them.  We can call it as hypertext. From hypertext, we can freely get many things (text) from one web page to another, go forward or back.

                There is also hypermedia. Hypermedia is like hypertext, but hypermedia is combination between hypertext and multimedia, like images or sounds or animations. So hypermedia not only contain links but also some forms of sounds, images, animation or videos.

                Actually, Internet can give us some advantages and disadvantages. It depends on how we use internet well or not. For the advantages are we can access everythat that we want, we can know what happen in other countries by browsing the news through internet, and we can do some innovation from it. But at the same time, there are some disadavantages like virus threat that can destroy our pc or mobile phone that we use to browse internet, and some worrying for the teachers if their students used internet for the materials not connected with the learning process.